Individual characteristics, such as educational background, are important but insufficient to explain variation in financial skills among people. Using repeated cross-sectional survey data on over 145,000 individuals aged 50+ and resident in 20 European countries and Israel combined with...

As a sub-index of the Elite Quality Index (EQx) 2023, the NextGen Value Creation Barometer measures the extent to which countries' economic models create or deplete value for young and future generations, focusing on five core categories: Ecology and Natural Capital; Equitable Opportunities;...

This paper provides the first empirical analysis on whether and how intergenerational transmission affects children's risk preferences by exploiting exogenous variation in parents' risk preferences. We utilize parents' experiences to earthquakes---one of the most unpredictable natural...

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...

This study investigates gender gaps across generations in digital literacy (DL) using a unique dataset of 6,695 adults collected in Indonesia, the fourth largest country in the world. We analyze differences in men and women’s access to mobile phones, education, occupation, and income to...

We prove that if each generation cares, non-paternalistically, about other generations wellbeing rather than about their choices, and do not curb or otherwise alter future generations choice sets, then backward induction intergenerational choice paths are efficient. This somewhat surprising...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) fosters positive synergies for an intergenerational match in business. The main goal of this contribution is to investigate the components of ЕI for selected young people and seniors and to formulate recommendations for their successful intergenerational business...